[gnu.org #678983] Re: [Savannah-help-public] problems with large emails

[Ward Vandewege via RT]

Hi Werner,

> address@hidden - Thu Mar 03 02:23:32 2011]:
> Thanks for answering.  I've now CCed the GNU sysadmin guys...
> 
> >     I've recently sent a large mail (about 400kByte) to [the
> >     freetype-devel mailing list]
> >
> > The FSF sysadmins have the MTA impose a rather low limit on all
> > mail, that I believe your 400k msg has run afoul of.  Unfortunately
> > I don't remember what the limit is, maybe 100k?  200k?  (The one
> > exception to the limit, hopefully fully implemented just recently,
> > is for mail originating from savannah, for the sake of autocommit
> > mail.)
> 
> Uh, oh.  I very much dislike this new behaviour.  FreeType is a

There is nothing new about this. This size limit has been in place for
years.

The reason is simple - lists is currently on a T1 connection to the
internet. It just does not have the bandwidth to send large attachments
out to many subscribers.

The good news is that we are working on moving lists to our colocation
facility. We hope to finish that job in the next week or two. At that
point, we can revisit the size limitation.

Thanks,
Ward.

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Ward Vandewege <address@hidden>
Free Software Foundation - Senior System Administrator